Plant secondary metabolites (PSMs) play many roles including defense against pathogens,
pests, and herbivores; response to environmental stresses, and mediating organismal …

Microorganisms including bacteria, fungi, viruses, protists and archaea live as communities
in complex and contiguous environments. They engage in numerous inter-and intra …

Environmental stress is increasing worldwide, yet we lack a clear picture of how stress
disrupts the stability of microbial communities and the ecosystem services they provide …

Rhizobia–legume symbiosis is an important type of plant–microbe mutualism; however, the
establishment of this association is complicated and can be affected by many factors. The …

Associations between plants and microorganisms exist in nature, and they can either be
beneficial or detrimental to host plants. Promoting beneficial plant-microbe interaction for …

Microplastics (MPs) have been gaining the attention of environmental researchers since the
1960s anecdotal reports of plastic entanglement and ingestion by marine creatures. Due to …

Background Rhizosphere microbial communities are key regulators of plant performance,
yet few studies have assessed the impact of different management approaches on the …

Global changes such as seawater intrusion and freshwater resource salinization increase
environmental stress imposed on the aquatic microbiome. A strong predictive understanding …

Soils harbor highly diverse microbial communities that are critical to soil health, but
agriculture has caused extensive land use conversion resulting in negative effects on critical …

The long-standing challenge in microbial ecology is to quantify the relative importance of
deterministic and stochastic processes in controlling the community structures through …